1. Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2013. All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. 1 Traditional Art Skills Taking it to the Computer Don’t feel intimidated! It is very easy to go from drawing or painting to working with a digital file of your work.

2. Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2013. All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. 2 Traditional Art Skills If you are lucky enough to have some talent in traditional media, or if you have been trained to be a good observer and have learned to draw, it is very possible to incorporate the computer into new age mixed media pieces!

3. Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2013. All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. 3 Traditional Art Skills Step 1: Complete your original artwork in a traditional medium.

4. Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2013. All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. 4 Traditional Art Skills The size of your art work does not matter… it is possible to get good reproductions of any size work. Even “messy media” like oil pastel or chalk will work as a digital file!

5. Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2013. All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. 5 Traditional Art Skills Digital Terms: JPEG – stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group and is a file format commonly used with photos. It is easily viewed, and small-sized, but can lose resolution. PDF – stands for Portable Document Format and is a very shareable format that can be viewed easily, printed with quality, and stored with little memory. TIF – stands for Tagged Image File and is a flexible bitmap image format which can be created by scanners.

6. Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2013. All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. 6 Traditional Art Skills Digital Terms (cont.): Flash drives – are small, very portable memory devices. They come in varying sizes and can be used to transfer information from computer to computer or even directly to some printers. Memory card – a portable storage device that must be inserted into a device such as a camera, phone, or card reader that will work with computers. Card reader – a device in which to insert a memory card that fits the USB port. Card readers can have one or multiple slots for the different sizes of memory cards.

7. Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2013. All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. 7 Traditional Art Skills The easiest way to make your artwork digital is to scan it. However, scanning is not an option if the original artwork is too big for the classroom’s scanner glass.

8. Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2013. All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. 8 Traditional Art Skills A digital camera with a tripod and a place with good lighting to shoot high resolution digital images of the work are essential for the best results. You can get a decent result with natural light from the sun, but you will have to worry about elimination of shadows on the artwork.

9. Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2013. All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. 9 Traditional Art Skills Another appealing option for those artists who care to explore it… the digital tablet. More employers are asking for students trained in this newest of all drawing media. It is a very marketable skill in today’s workplace.